Practicing my Hand Sawing...

Everyone seems to have their "least favorite" aspect of their work... mine is Hand Sawing...

I'm not good at it (might get better if I did more) & fight to keep my silver sheet steady while I'm doing it (my hands are a bit weak due to some health issues)... but I love the look & would really like to get better... so... I decided to "practice" a bit this last week.

This is the result... not fabulous but cute... 

Her name is Savannah...

"Savannah" - Necklace in Sterling Silver
with a tiny Aventurine bead.

Getting to the Heart of the matter...

This piece speaks for itself...

"A Heart for Christ" - necklace in Sterling Silver.

Spiritual Impressions...

I was playing around again with textures & making impressions, these are the fruit of my experiments:

"Fisher of Men" - Cross impression on fish-scale textured Sterling Silver,
adjustable to approximately 16"/18"/20". 

"Ichthus" - Ichthus impression on fish-scale textured Sterling Silver,
adjustable to approximately 16"/18"/20". 

A Queen gets a Facelift & makes some new friends....

Occasionally this happens, a piece may look pretty in a picture but just doesn't wear well... that's what happened to Queen Abigail... this is how she looked before:

She's had a facelift, trimmed away her "double-chin" - the scrolls on the sides that looked terrible when worn... this is how she looks now:

Queen Abigail - Larimar, with a combination of Sterling & Fine Silver.

Queen Abigail - detail...

Not to worry, Abigail's a good citizen & donated her no-longer desirable bits to two new friends...

Meet Lady Blue, a member of the royal court... she got one set of scrolls:
NOTICE: Lady Blue has been discovered to have "issues" & will need to be reworked... that's what happens when I try new things... back to the drawing board!

"Lady Blue" - Sterling Silver with a faceted stone that might be Topaz (gifted to me),
adjustable to approximate lengths of 16"/18"/20".

Meet Comely Cross, she got the other set of scrolls:

"Comely Cross" - Sterling Silver, adjustable to approximately 16"/18"/20".

Way too long, and now to catch up...

Ok, you probably realized that after the boutique in Christmas I was wiped out... and then there was Christmas & family events in 3 different states (one east coast, one midwest, and one west coast)... December was a mad mushy MESS!!

But I'm still around, and I ended up taking my "stuff" to a conference last week, and I went crazy getting some Valentines stuff ready for that event... 'nuff said, here's the pictures, I'll update the "Items For Sale" another day, this is merely a pic-dump... interested just post a comment or shoot me an email at: Gavotian@gmail.com

Conference setup:

These got sold before I got good pictures:

Textured Copper hearts with Sterling Silver in "Falling In Love" style.

Mid-sized sterling silver hearts.

Textured Copper hearts, otherwise sterling, triple-dangles.

I got this piece reworked & improved:

Heavy sterling silver 1/2 round wire & a custom made copper bead.

Now for lots of stuff that has hearts, either Silver or Copper or torch-fired enamel on Copper, all parts other than the hearts are Sterling Silver (there are a couple fine-silver custom made beads on one piece):